CAT 2011 Root and Word list

Root Root form Meaning ac,acr sharp Words acrimonious acerbic exacerbate primeval coeval medieval Word Meaning bitter in nature harsh or severe, as of temper or expression to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of of or pertaining to the first age or ages, especially of the world f the same age, date, or duration; equally old: of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of theMiddle Ages

aev

ev

age era

agog

leader

demagogue pedagogue

a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gainspower and po pularity by arousing the emotions, passions, andprejudices of the people a teacher a formal praise showing or expressing love: friendship,peaceful harmony friendly cast criticism upon of one mind greatness of mind and spirit yearly remittance every two years present all years study of man hater of mankind lover of mankind skill suitable

agaro am

to discuss or speak panegyric love amorous amity amicable animadvert unanimous magnanimity annuity biennial perennial anthropology misanthrope philanthropy aptitude apt adept inept aqueduct aqua fortis aqueous archaeology monarch anarchy arch bishop

anim

mind,soul

annu

enn

year

anthrop

man

apt

ept

fit

aqua

water

passageway for conducting water nitric acid (strong water)

arch

first ruler

study of first things sole ruler lack of government the first bishop

aster

star space

astronomy asterik disaster astronaut audible inaudible auditory auditorium

study of starts star like character (*) catastrophe (contrary star) one who travels in space able to be heard unable to hear related to hearing a place where people may be heard

aud

audit

hear

bellum

war

bellicose belligerent rebellious bibliography bibliophile bible biography biology biochemistry brevity abbreviate breviloquent

inclined to fight inclined to wage war resisiting authority list of books a lover of books the book writing about a person's life study of living things chemistry of living things briefness shorten marked by brevity of speech

biblio

book

bio

life

breve

short

cad

cas

to fall

decadent cadence cascade

characterized by decadence, especially culturally or morally: rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: anything that resembles a waterfall, especially in seeming to flow or fall in abundance: to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake;share (usually fol lowed by in ) a commandment or direction given as a rule of action orconduct. the city or town that is the official seat of government in acountry, state, etc a person who is at the head of or in authority over others;chief; leader.

capt

cap cept cip

to take

capture participate precept

capit

capt

head

capital captain

carn

flesh

carnage carnivore carnal

the slaughter of a great number of people an animal that eats flesh. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, itspassions and a ppetites; sensual: to go or move away preceding; prior a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner speed to decrease the velocity of to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress,advancement, etc., in: a period of 100 years. pertaining to, or marking the completion of, a period of 100years. an insect with hundred feet the sequential order in which past events occur. something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongsto an earlier time: a chronological record of events the killing of a king an act of cutting the killing of one human being by another. o stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: an act of reciting. courteous member of community society of citizens loud speech shouted approval fear of closed places finish to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity

ced

cess

to yield to go

recede antecedent process

cele

swift

celerity decelerate accelerate

cent

hundred

century centennial centipede

chron

time

chronology

anachronism chronicle cid cis to cut to kill regicide incision homicide incite excite recitation civil civilian civilization clamorous declamation acclamation claustrophobia conclude seclude

cit

citat

to call to start

civi

citizen

clam

clamat

to cry out

claud

claus clos clud

to close

cord

heart

accord cordial discord incorporate corporeal corpse

agreement (from heart) friendly lack of harmony organize into a body pertaining to the body dead body

corpor

body

cracy

rule

theocracy democracy plutocracy incredulous credible incredible culprit culpable exculpate curator manicure pedicure cursory precursor cursive

that constitution of a state where god is regarded as sole soverign rule by the people government by the wealthy not believing believable so extraordinary as to seem impossible one who is at fault which can be punished free from blame person who takes care of something taking care of one's hands taking care of one's feet brief forerunner in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.

cred

credit

to believe

culpa

blame

cura

to take care

curr

curs

to run

da

dat

to give

data mandate date debit debitor indebt democracy demagogue epidemic epidermis pachyderm dermatology

facts,statistics command given time something owed the one who is in debt debt rule of the people leader of the people widespread (among the people) skin thick-skinned quadruped study of skin and its disorders

deb

debit

to owe

demos

people

derm

skin

dic

dict

to say

diction dictionary benediction docile document doctor dominate domain dominant obdurate duress indurated aqueduct viaduct ductile

speech lexicon good speech easily taught something that provides evidence learned person (originally teacher) have power over land under rule prevailing hard to move under threat morally hardened artificial waterway arched roadway capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals;malleable. powerful powerful explosive engine making electrical power

doc

doct

to teach

domin

rule

dour

dur

hard severe sour to lead

duc

duct

dynam

power

dynamic dynamite dynamo

ego

egoist egotist egocentric energy ergatocracy error erratic knight-errant

a person who is self-centered selfish person revolving about oneself power rule of the workers mistake wandering wandering knight

erg

urg

work

err

wander

fac

fic fect fec fals

to make to do

factory fiction affect fallacious infallible falsify

place where things are made manufactured story cause to change misleading not prone to error lie

fal

to decieve

fer

to bring to hear

conifer infer defer confident confidant fidelity confine finite infinite flexible deflect genuflect comfort fort fortress

bearing cones as pine trees to carry in (to understand)

fid

belief faith

belief a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or withwhom p rivate matters and problems are discussed. honesty (belief in some person) keep within limits having definite limits having no definite limits able to bend bend away to bend knees in prayer to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usuallysurrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works stronghold luck lucky strength,firmness of mind easily broken to deflect,to break someone who flees home for someone fleeing pouring out poured in many directions (widespread)

fin

end limit

flect

flex

bend

fort

strong

fort

luck chance

fortune fortunate fortuitous fragile fraction refract fugitive refuge effusive diffusive

frag

fract

break

fugere

flee

fuls

pour

gam

marriage

monogamy bigamy polygamy genus generic gender genesis

marriage to one person marriage to two people at the same time having many wifes or husbands at the same time a kind; sort; class. general class organized by sex from birth

gen

gener

class race birth

grad

gress

go step

digress regress gradual epigram telegram graphology aggregate segregate gregarious

to astray from the main point go backwards step by step pithy statement instantaeous messages over great distance study of handwriting combined to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group tending to group together as in a herd

graph

gram

write

greg

flock herd

helio

sun

heliocentric heliopolis heliotrope

measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun. city of the Sun God flower that faces the sun

jac

jec jact jurat

to throw

projectile trajectory jury perjury

something thrown forward path taken by thrown object group of men and women sworn to speak the truth testify falsely

jur

to swear

labor

laborat

to work

labour collaborate laborious legible election eligible legal legislative legitimate libel library libretto liberty

work work together with others difficult able to read choice able to be selected lawful law making lawful slander (originally found in a little book) a place where books are kept for reading the book of a musical play freedom

leg

lect lig

to choose to read

leg

law

liber

libr

book

liber

free

liberation log logy word study ratio to talk monologue entomology analogy soliloquy loquacious elocution elucidate lucid translucent

the fact of setting free speech by one person study of insects relation speech by one individual talkative speech enlighten clear allowing some light to pass through done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands ratherthan by an ele ctrical or electronic device: the original text of an author's work, handwritten or nowusually typed, t hat is submitted to a publisher. the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale:

loqu

locut

luc

light

manu

hand

manual manuscript manufacture

mar

sea

maritime of or pertaining to the sea: submarine something situated or living under the surface of the sea, asa plant or animal. mariner a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship;sailor

mater

matr

mother

maternal matriarch

of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting amother: the female head of a family or tribal line.

mit

miss

to send

missile an object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as astone, bullet, or arrow. transmit to pass on (a genetic characteristic) from parent tooffspring: admit o allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: mobilize motile immovable admonish premonition monitor to organize or adapt moving or capable of moving spontaneously: incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary. to caution, advise, or counsel against something. a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event;presentiment: a person who admonishes, especially with reference to conduct a funeral home in a dying state; near death. not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying:

mob

mot mov

move

mon

monit

warn

mori

mort

to die

mortuary moribund immortal

morph

shape form

amorphous

lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless:

the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure oforganisms. morphology anthropomorphic resembling or made to resemble a human form: mutate immutable mutable to change not mutable; unchangeable liable or subject to change or alteration.

mut

change

nat

born

innate native national

existing in one from birth being the place or environment in which a person was born ora thing ca me into being of, pertaining to, or maintained by a nation as an organizedwhole or ind ependent political unit

nav

ship

navigate naval circumnavigate negate abnegate negative cognomen nomenclature nominative

to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship oraircraft: of or pertaining to ships of all kinds: to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: to refuse or deny oneself xpressing or containing negation or denial: a nick name the names or terms comprising a set or system. made out in a person's name, as a certificate or security.

neg

deny

nomen

name

nov

new

novice a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; novel of a new kind innovate to introduce something new

onoma

nym

name word

anonymous homonym toponym operate operation cooperate

without any name acknowledged a word the same as another in sound and spelling butdifferent in meanin g a name derived from the name of a place. a name derived from the name of a place. an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning oroperating. to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.

oper

work

pac

peace

pacify pacific pacifist dispassionate impassive patriotism patriarch paternal

make peaceful peaceful person opposed to war free of emotion showing no feeling love of one's country (father land) male ruler of a family fatherly he intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing ofthe feelings , thoughts, or attitudes of another the harmony of feeling naturally existing between persons oflike tastes or opinion lacking feeling the support of a column a child doctor a book or set of books containing articles on various topics a forcing to do drive out to drive or urge forward request craving desire love for wisdom lover of humanity lover of everything English fear of celestial space fear of closed places fully attended over abundance fullness place after place after placed before a noun able to be carried carry into the country

pass

feel

pater

patr

father

path

feelings

empathy sympathy apathy

ped

pod

feet child information to drive

pedestal paediatrician encyclopedia compulsion expel impel petition appetite philosophy philanthropy anglophile astraphobia claustrophobia plenary plethora plenitude postpone position preposition portable import

pel

puls

pet

petit

to seek

phil

love

phobia

fear

pleos

full

pon

posit

to place

port

portat

to carry

export poten potens able powerful potentate potent omnipotent psychology psychosis psychopath putative computation amputate antipyretic pyre pyrophobia

carry out of the country powerful person powerful all powerful study of the mind mental disorder mentally ill person supposed (calculate) calculation cut off medicine used against fever such a pile for burning a dead body, especially as part of afuneral rite, as in India. fear from fire

psych

psychos

mind

put

putat

to trim to calculate

pyr

pyro

fire heat fever

quer

ques quir quis

to ask

inquiry inquisitive query

investigation question question

reg

rect

rule

regicide regent insurrection ridicule risible deride interrogate prerogative interrupt bankrupt rupture

muder of a ruler ruler overthrown of a ruler to laugh at inclination to laugh to laught at someone mockingly question privilege break into insolvent to break

rid

ris

to laugh

rog

rogat

to ask

rupt

to break

sacr

sanct

holy

sacred sacrilegious sacrament

holy violating something holy religious act

sci

to know

science omnsicient conscious microscope telescope periscope transcribe script circumscribe dissect bisect sector sedentary session resident sensible sentimental consent sequel prequel consecutive absolve dissolute insomnia somnolent somnambulist philosophy sophisticated sophomore spectator circumspect spectacles

to know to know all to know oneself device for seeing small objects device for seeing far away objects device for seeing around corners make a written copy written form of a language write around cut apart cut into two pieces a distinct part, especially of society or of a nation's economy inactive (sitting) meeting to dwell permanently or for a considerable time having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment emotional agree that which follows that which precedes following in order free from blame (loosen from blame) morally lax (loose) inability to sleep sleepy sleep walker love for wisdom worldly wise a person or group in the second year of any endeavor observer (one who watches) cautious (looking around) anything presented to the sight or view, especially somethingof a strikin g or impressive kind to breathe in to breathe out full of life (breathe)

scop

to watch to see

scrib

script

to write

sect

cut

sess

sid sed

to sit

sent

sens

to think to feel

sequi

secut seque

to follow

solv

solut

to loosen

somn

sleep

soph

wisdom

spec

spect

to look at

spir

breathe

respire expire spirited

string

strict

bind

stringent constrict stricture constructive construe destruct somersault exultant salient

strict become tight something that restrains helping to build analyse (how something is build) serving or designed to destroy to leap or jump while turning the heels over jumping out of one's skin with joy (excited) that which leaps at you (important)

stru

struct

build

suit

sal sil sault

jump leap

tang

tact ting

to touch

tangent contingent contact temporary contemporary temporal tenable tenure retentive terminal terminate interminable terrain terrestrail sub terranean thermal thermostat diathermy atom dichotomy echtomy distort contort tortuous

touching depending upon to touch for the time at same time pertaining to time able to be held holding of office holding,having good memory situated at or forming the end or extremity of something end endless

tempor

time

ten

tent

to hold

term

end

terr

land

pertaining to the earth below the earth's surface related to heat instrument tha regulates heat sending heat through body tissues a particle which cannot be cut further division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves orpairs. surgical cutting twist out of true shape or meaning to twist together or upon itself twisting

therm

heat

tome

a slice a piece cut off

tors

tort

twist

tract

drag pull

tractor distract attract intrude protrude intrusion

helps to pull pull away pull toward push one's way in something sticking out to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome to throw into great disorder to interfere with; interrupt that cannot be disturbed

trud

trus

push shove

turb

trouble

perturb disturb imperturbable

urb

city

urban urbane suburban

pertaining to city polished pertaining to a city dweller outside a city

vac

empty

vacuous evacuate vacuum invade evasive intervene convention circumvent verity verify verdict verbose verbatim verbiage vertigo invert introvert viaduct trivial evidence vista

empty headed compel to empty an area a space entirely devoid of matter. enter in a hostile fashion not frank come between meeting to go around or bypass truth check the truth a true saying wordy word for a word excessive usage of words truning dizzy turned upside down turned inside roadway (arched) small talk at crossroads (junction of three roads) things seen view

vad

vas

go

veni

vent ven

to come

ver

TRUE

verb

word

vers

vert

turn

via

way

vid

vis

to see

television vinc vict vanq to conquer invincible convince vanquish vivisection vivacious vitality vocal provocation avocation malevolent benevolent volition voluntary convolution revolution evolution

to transmit pictures at a distance unconquerable persuaded defeat operating on living animals full of life liveliness of, pertaining to, or uttered with the voice calling or rousing the anger of calling,minor occupation wishing someone ill wishing someone good of one's own will of one's own will coiled state a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point any process of formation or growth; development

viv

vit

alive

voc

vocat

to call

vol

vollens

to wish

volv

volut

to roll